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SUBMITTER: Thompson NE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4600717 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thompson Nathan E NE Demes Brigitte B O'Neill Matthew C MC Holowka Nicholas B NB Larson Susan G SG
Nature communications 20151006
Human walking entails coordinated out-of-phase axial rotations of the thorax and pelvis. A long-held assumption is that this ability relies on adaptations for trunk flexibility present in humans, but not in chimpanzees, other great apes, or australopithecines. Here we use three-dimensional kinematic analyses to show that, contrary to current thinking, chimpanzees walking bipedally rotate their lumbar and thoracic regions in a manner similar to humans. This occurs despite differences in the magni ...[more]